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Got "Sweetie'd" in the grocery store again!
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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 312869" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>klmno, maybe we're cousins somewhere down the line. My grandmother died many years ago but she was a feisty one, a real character! This is the one who <em>lied</em> about her age on her tombstone ... as her way of of getting the last word in with a 50-year long running joke with my grandfather! She was seven months older than he was. She was born in June of 1885 and he was born in January, 1886. Even when they were newlyweds he would tease her by calling her an 'old lady'. She would retalliate by always giving her date of birth, even on official documents, as June, <u>1886</u>, making herself five months younger than he was! When he died she bought a double tombstone and had his info engraved on one side of it. And then she had her own name and date of birth engraved on the other side ... June, <u>1886</u>! To this day, family members visiting the cemetery get the giggles over this.</p><p> </p><p>I don't so much mind "<em>m'am</em>" as it is a gesture of respect. I did mind it when they first started calling me that though - made me feel old before I really was. And I know there are a lot of older people here who call everyone Honey or Sweetie. I don't like it from them either but it's not quite as bad - with them it <em>is</em> habit. But even here, it has never EVER been acceptable for a teenager to call a 60+ year old person "Sweetie"! To me, calling someone names like that suggests that they are putting the person they are talking to on a lower level than themselves, and putting themselves on a superior level - that's the way a mother talks to a small child. OK if it's a kid, NOT OK if it's me! I call my <em>dogs</em> "Sweetie"!</p><p> </p><p>And maybe it's just me, but this whole generation of young women coming up seems downright weird to me! Maybe not all of them but a lot of them! They take pictures of themselves cheek to cheek making fish-lips at each other! We have a few at work who think they have to hug <em>everybody</em> and they greet each other like long-lost relatives when they just saw each other an hour ago! We have two (both in their 30's) who hug and air-kiss every time they see each other, then screech "I love you!" at each other as they go their separate ways! Not like they're 'like that', like they were a couple of middle-school kids! Makes me wanna gag!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 312869, member: 1883"] klmno, maybe we're cousins somewhere down the line. My grandmother died many years ago but she was a feisty one, a real character! This is the one who [I]lied[/I] about her age on her tombstone ... as her way of of getting the last word in with a 50-year long running joke with my grandfather! She was seven months older than he was. She was born in June of 1885 and he was born in January, 1886. Even when they were newlyweds he would tease her by calling her an 'old lady'. She would retalliate by always giving her date of birth, even on official documents, as June, [U]1886[/U], making herself five months younger than he was! When he died she bought a double tombstone and had his info engraved on one side of it. And then she had her own name and date of birth engraved on the other side ... June, [U]1886[/U]! To this day, family members visiting the cemetery get the giggles over this. I don't so much mind "[I]m'am[/I]" as it is a gesture of respect. I did mind it when they first started calling me that though - made me feel old before I really was. And I know there are a lot of older people here who call everyone Honey or Sweetie. I don't like it from them either but it's not quite as bad - with them it [I]is[/I] habit. But even here, it has never EVER been acceptable for a teenager to call a 60+ year old person "Sweetie"! To me, calling someone names like that suggests that they are putting the person they are talking to on a lower level than themselves, and putting themselves on a superior level - that's the way a mother talks to a small child. OK if it's a kid, NOT OK if it's me! I call my [I]dogs[/I] "Sweetie"! And maybe it's just me, but this whole generation of young women coming up seems downright weird to me! Maybe not all of them but a lot of them! They take pictures of themselves cheek to cheek making fish-lips at each other! We have a few at work who think they have to hug [I]everybody[/I] and they greet each other like long-lost relatives when they just saw each other an hour ago! We have two (both in their 30's) who hug and air-kiss every time they see each other, then screech "I love you!" at each other as they go their separate ways! Not like they're 'like that', like they were a couple of middle-school kids! Makes me wanna gag! [/QUOTE]
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